API Heritage Month: "CARVED IN SILENCE" by Emmy Award Winner Felicia Lowe

* STANFORD API HERITAGE MONTH OPENING EVENING EVENT! *

"CARVED IN SILENCE"

by Emmy Award winner Felicia Lowe

* GUEST SPEAKER *

Ms. Katherine Toy, AB '91 and AM '95

Executive Director of the Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation

* DINNER RECEPTION *

6:00 p.m. @ the Asian American Activities Center

* FILM SCREENING *

7:00 p.m. @ the History Corner (Bldg. 200, Room 303)

* BACKGROUND *

"Carved in Silence" uses historical materials and dramatic re-creations to tell the story of Chinese immigrants detained at the Angel Island Immigration Station in San Francisco Bay. Angel Island served as a processing and detainment center for hundreds of thousands of Asian immigrants between 1910 and 1940. Misleadingly referred to as America's "Ellis Island of the West," Angel Island's primary mission was immigrant exclusion, specifically Chinese immigrants, thanks to the discriminatory Exclusion Act of 1882, the Scott Act of 1888, and the Immigration Act of 1924.

As part of Stanford's month long celebration of Asian Pacific Islander Heritage, come learn more about Angel Island and its complicated role in the development of Asian American communities in the Bay Area.

Contacts: Linda Tran lmtran@stanford.edu, Hosea Harvey hosea@stanford.edu